To think that a primary school shold not have grammatical errors on their website?

[Greythorne]

Maybe I am fussy / old-fashioned / pedantic.

But a school with a website like this would make me run a mile.

All I can see wrong is 'miss print', but I am very tired. Am I missing something else?

Oh, fuck!
Hoist by my own petard!!!!

Should! Should! Should!

Not shold......

YANBU

Well, yes, that and the absence of punctuation as well as odd punctuation.

petard, indeed.
I dunno, I'd rather they expended energy on giving DC love of learning rather than worry about the odd typo.

at title typo!

It's a very naff looking website IMO. Years ago I was passing New Look and they had a huge sign in the window that said 'Your a Star'. I went in and told the girl behind the counter that this was wrong, and that as it was an obviously mass produced advert, it was wrong in every window of every New Look store in the country.

She didn't care. But it made me

typo made me laugh!

sod's law indicates that if you are complaining about grammar/punctuation or spelling, you make a istake in your own title or post....

I'm one of those annoying pedants people who gets very cross about poor grammar, and I would actually refuse to send my DC to a school where proper grammar is awarded such little importance. I think proper grammar is essential to getting on in life, and as such should be taught from day one.

they don't seem to know their trees either... but I may be wrong... goes for another look...

"This will tell you were to find the class blogs and how to add comments"

Ouch. That's by no means the only error. Did no one check this mess before it was launched?

It is the actual law that any pedant thread must have a mistake in the OP/title. Don't try to fight it.

I'm usually quite obsessed by grammar / spelling etc but think it needs to be seen with the understanding of what probably happened... teachers inundated with children rabbiting on about non existent mufti day, head teacher tells (busy) secretary to get a note on the website ASAP, noone checks properly what has gone on there. I agree it doesn't look great, but if everything else is good about the school, I'd probably be fairly forgiving.

In saying that, our primary school's website is utterly appalling (and I am NOT going to link it!) and I really hope the new head makes sorting it out a priority!

"To think that a primary school shold not have grammatical errors on ITS website?"

The HT at my school sent out a letter with one spelling mistake.

after the deluge of complaints everything and I mean everything is checked five times by various members of staff.

I don't think it can have happened as you suggest, spammertime. There isn't just an error on that note: the site is riddled with them.

They sent out a curriculum note from school for ds1 last term with a spelling mistake in - unfortunately it was in the line that said 'Daily spelling practise...' :o

I pointed it out, teacher said she would tell head of year (Y2) who is responsible for the leaflet.

Then this term's curriculum note came out - still had the same spelling mistake in it :o

Just wondering whether or not to point it out again at the start of this term coming to see if they get around to correcting it!

And yes - dodgy websites make me think twice about schools - nearly made me not even look at the school ds1 is at, despite being an outstanding school. It was just that the school closer to us was even worse that I figured I ought to go, they were probably more concerned with teaching than websites and I ought to give them the benefit of the doubt!

A while back, a parent at DS2's primary school volunteered to help out with the school's publicity. She was full of great ideas and energy, but writing clear, grammatical, properly-spelt material was not one of her strengths. By the time the headteacher realised this, masses of stuff had gone out to the local press and nobody had quite enough courage to say anything to her about it.

I bet something very similar has happened here, and the school staffroom has set up a raffle of doom to select an unlucky winner to deal with the problem.

You've noted it yourself but I claim Skitt's law as having struck on your title.

They are lucky to have an up to date useful web site. It's beyond DD2's primary

When I received the application form from my DS future primary school the covering letter alone had two spelling mistakes. I'm hoping the admin assistant was just having an off day.

I hate these mistakes too and so does my dd. She pointed one out the other day in our local newspaper. It also said "your" instead of "you're" and it was a headline. Dd's old primary school letters were full of mistakes. Spelling mistakes and "should of" instead of "should have". That used to get on my nerves so i told the secretary. She didn't like it but tough.

Completely agree that they really need to be setting an example - it's not that hard... And would add to it that all homework should be correct too - I've had to try really hard not to get out a red pen and correct some of the things we've had home (English and maths). Problem is that children believe that the teacher is always right, and it's hard explaining why they are generally infallible but on this occasion have been unable to add up correctly or spell "Christmas"...

YANBU.

I was helping in a yr3 class last week who were writing a get well soon letter to their classmate. One of the kids wrote "I hope you're leg gets better soon" on the whiteboard. The teacher then left them all to write their cards from that, I had to go and had a quick word before 20odd letters to the child were grammatically incorrect.

Surely the obvious their, they're, there, two, too, to, your, you're, it's and its should be basics??

They should be basics, Threeprinces, but poor spelling and punctuation seems to be very common among primary school teachers. Even in good schools, I've seen notices pinned up on the wall with incorrect spellings and misplaced apostrophes. I've got no idea how they're going to teach our children to spell correctly if they can't do it themselves.